Well-Known Christian Leader to Visit Campus Dr. Samuel Zwemer, Guest of Ambassadors, Here April 2, 3 Samuel Zwemer, DD, LLD, Litt D, FRGS, will be the guest mission­ ary speaker of the Ambassadors for Christ organization April 2 and 3. ECHO Dr. Zwemer will be addressing the Taylor family and friends in Shreiner Auditorium Sunday 7:30 p.m., Monday during the chapel hour 'Ye Shall Know the Truth" — John 8:32 at 9:30 a.m., and also at the 6:40 p.m. Ambassadors hour. Dr. Zwemer has been widely VOL. XXIV, NO. 26 Taylor University, Upland, Indiana TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1950 used of God to waken Christians of Europe and America to their duty f to evangelize the Moslem World. Faculty Frolic His parents were among the Students Choose Harold Berk Friday Night Dutch piolreers in Michigan where he was born. He attended Hope ! 1950-51 Student Council Head The Class of '51 is presenting the '<j| College and New Brunswick Theo- Faculty Frolic, a Variety Show com­ HHp' m logical Seminary. In 1890 Zwemer The returns of the student elec­ posed of performances by faculty jjgi ; with James Cantine founded the tions show that Harold Berk is members, at 8:00 Friday night in Arabia Mission. He has recently the coming student council presi­ Shreiner Auditorium. The price is §K .iOsL been back to Arabia to celebrate dent for next year. 30<1. • iSHHBBBk-SMr the sixtieth anniversary of that Elected as student representa­ jillilli Mission which is in one of the tives to the Dicipline Committee The show, directed by Miss Hor- Ml JBBH world's most difficult fields. are Ruth Henry and Don Granitz. tense Unger, is made up of skits, During more than twenty years They will replace Lillian Anderson readings, music and instrumentals. a member of the Arabia Mis­ and Jim McEwee. On the musical side, Miss Alice Hoi- sion, Zwemer and his family spent From the nominees for Student- comb will play the marimba, Miss • ' ill several years in America and with Faculty Committees the following Hazel Butz will play the piano, and ^ gig Robert Wilder and Robert E. Speer have been elected to hold such there is a trumpet solo by Coach mWKMm he l,ecame an influential leader of officies. Virginia Balk, Joseph Paul Williams. his generation in sending out youth to the foreing field. Hawkins, David La Shana, Don The Faculty Quartet will sing a McFarland, Mary Dahl, Kenneth few numbers and Miss Jean Van lilllrallllMi^^^^^MBElMlIffllwBlBM There followed some seventeen Dunklberger, Betty Fleming, years with headquarters in Cairo Horn will sing a solo number. Dr. SAMUEL ZWEMER Charles Micklewright, Carl Sitk- from which point Zwemer traveled World Renowned Missionary berg, Dick Unkenholz, Robert Bell, Two skits will be performed. Those to all parts of the Mohammedan Harold Herber, Nancy Mudge, acting in the one are: President world. His knowledge of Dutch John Travis, John Nelson, and Clyde Meredith, Dr. Hildreth Cross, and English as well as of Arabia ^pill Wortman. Coach Williams, Professor Elmer PULPIT CONTEST OPEN made him a divinely prepared mes­ Nussbaum, Miss Pearl Alexander, Registration for the annual Eliz­ senger to Moslems and to the BERK HAILS FROM MICHIGAN Miss Unger, Miss Ruth Young and abeth Conquest contest in pulpit churches of South Africa and the Miss Esther Bradford. The other skit Harold Berk, newly elected oratory to be held on Tuesday, May Dutch East Indies. He made a is a duo—Coach Don Odle and Dr. Student Council president, was born 9, 1950, must be in at the Dean's number of visits to the Moslem Ronald Jones. A reading will be at Adrian, Michigan in 1928. HAROLD BERK offices by Saturday, April 1, accord­ countries of the Near East as given by Dr. Cross. He graduated from Blissfield 1950-51 Council President ing to Dean A. Leland Forrest. well as China, India and what is Michigan in 1946 as salutatorian of now Pakistan. his class. While he was in high In addition, he is a noted author school he was active in the student of this generation. He has pub­ council, varsity basketball, and the lished nearly fifty books in Eng­ school band. lish over the past half century as After he graduated from high well as a number of books and school he worked for a year in a tracts in Arabic. refrigeration factory as a line in­ His works have been translated spector. into Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, He came to Taylor in the fall of German, French, Dutch, Spanish, 1947 and has been active in extra­ Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Chinese. curricular activities, including Dr. Zwemer was the founder and Science Club president and Student for thirty-six years editor of The Council representative and treasurer. Moslem World, a quarterly pub­ lication which has been the leading English periodical in this field. Early in his life Zwemer was elec­ ted a Fellow of the Royal Geogra­ phical Society for his explorations is Arabia. He has been noted in Great Britain for years as the last name in the British "Who's Choir to Leave Tuesday Who." He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa by Rutgers University and has had many degrees con­ On Vacation Four of East ferred upon him. Professor Glover and the A Cappella choir will start on their annual For ten years he was Professor of the History of Religion and spring concert tour Monday afternoon, April 3. Christian Missions in Princeton The first stop will be Greenville, Ohio, where the choir will bring Theological Seminary. He has been their opening concert at the St. Johns Evangelical and Reformed church. a leading writer on theological and April 4, they will go to Katherine Biblical subjects in many maga­ Barber's home church in Manor, zines. For Rent (Sob!) Pennsylvania, where they will sing Samuel Zwemer remains today in the Methodist church. at past four score years of age On April 5, the choir will travel one of the most dynamic and pow­ By Gladys Bradford over 350 miles to sing in Bridgeport, erful missionary speakers as Notice is hereby served to the New York. They will sing an evening has been in the great Missionary concert in the Methodist churchy gatherings at home and abroad. effect that pigeon hole 662 is ROBERT BELL where Rev. B. P. Mudge will be their The Ambassadors for Christ available for occupancy. It is a 1951 Gem Editor host. organization extends an invitation lovely apartment, having full- The Lucien Memorial Methodist to all students, faculty, and visit­ Results of the nominations by the length windows on the north end church in Kings Park, Long Island ing friends to attend these services Committee on Student Orgarfizationsarfiz on April 2 and 3. and an exquisite French door on will be the next stop. Rev. Lauren PROFESSOR ROBERT GLOVER and Publications as voted on by the York, a Taylor Alumnus, will enter­ To Direct Choir on Tour present Gem staff show that Bob the east. The tenement is located tain the choir and their director on Bell has been elected editor of the in the business section of the city. Thursday evening, April 6, for a full Sparks Lists Special 1951 Gem. The Staff re-elected Jim Shopping and school districts are concert. In the morning and after­ G.I. Memorial Contest Palm Sunday Services Norris as business manager. within walking distance. Mails noon of April 7, the choir will sing Bell came to Taylor from Buffalo at the Kings'Park State Hospital and A prize is offered to the two stu­ Palm Sunday, April 2, will be a and fe-mails especially welcome. New York, where he attended the the Mitchell Field Army Air Base dents writing the best essays on the special day at the Upland Methodist public schools. While there he ed­ It is with a sorrowing heart that where Rev. York is a Chaplain. general theme "Contemporary Prob­ church. At 9:30 a.m. all classes of lems in American History." The first ited the student newspaper. I have resorted to the above action. On the evening of the same day the church school will seek to at­ He has also served on the editor­ the choir will sing at Riverhead, prize is for fifteen dollars and the tain announced goals in attendance ial staff of the official magazine of I had earnestly desired that it Long Island, where Rev. Lawrence second for ten dollars. and offering. the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buf- should never come to this. How­ Boyle, another Taylor alumnus is Rules for the contest are as fol­ At 10:30 the Junior choir directed falo. ever, under the present circumst­ the minister. lows: by Patricia West and Virginia Bun- Since coming to Taylor as a junior ances, I feel that this plan will Rev. William Arnett, pastor of 1. The contest is open to all stu­ ner, and the Senior choir will sing transfer student, Bell has been ac­ be best. There was a time when the Norwegian Evangelical Free dents registered in#Tayior. appropriate anthems. tive in religious undertakings, played apartment 662 was the center of church in Brooklyn, New York, will 2. At least five students must be The pastor, Rev. F. H. Sparks, will a leading role in the Junior class all tenement activity. be host to the Taylor group on April entered in the contest. bring a special Palm Sunday mess­ play, "Jane Eyre," and is frequently 9. In the evening the choir 3. Topics must be submitted by age, followed by the baptism of seen working in the library.